Our most powerful experiences will not result in permanent changes unless we make daily changes.

You may have experienced something very powerful that made you want to change forever (such as a new marriage), but unless you plan and execute the changes that will affect you daily, you will not make much changes at all in the end. This is because even the most powerful experience will fade away, and we will be left with our daily habits that were built in.

To use an illustration, we might be super motivated to get fit and so we go out and work out for 5 hours. But we are so sore afterwards, we quit. It’s better to exercise just 30 minutes every other day and do it consistently week after week. (This is also why most diets fail. We do too much too soon!)

Spiritually, it’s the same. Even if we have seen the face of God Himself, unless we make plans to spend time with Him perhaps 15 minutes a day consistently, we will soon forget that encounter and its affects will fade away.

Solomon is a case in point. In 2 Chronicles, he starts out so well. He has an amazing encounter with God and starts out amazingly. But slowly, over time, he moves further and further away from God, enticed by the pleasures of this world. And by the time he is old, Israel has gone from being one of the most powerful nations in the world to a nation on the brink of a break up.

What happened to him? His success got to his head. He made small compromises – marrying foreign princesses, acquiring wealth, and eventually worshiping foreign gods. In other words, slowly and almost imperceptively, he moved toward destruction…

What matters is not the big break you get. It’s the small thing you do or don’t do every day.

Be afraid of neglect doing the small things (Daily and weekly things). It’s those small things that will either bring you closer to God or destroy you.

PH